Photo from WehaitiansFrom The New York Times:
Perhaps we’ve heard so little about them because the crimes are so unspeakable, the evil so profound.
For years now, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding bands of soldiers and militias have been waging a war of rape and destruction against women. This sustained campaign of mind-bending atrocities, mostly in the eastern part of the country, has been one of the strategic tools in a wider war that has continued, with varying degrees of intensity, since the 1990s. Millions have been killed.
Women and girls of all ages, from old women to very young children, have been gang-raped, and in many cases their sexual organs have been mutilated. The victims number in the hundreds of thousands. But the world, for the most part, has remained indifferent to their suffering.
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My Comment: There is nothing that we cannot do. Africa is now undergoing the tribal and ethnic hatreds and wars that the Europeans were able to contain during the period of colonialism .... but with their absence and the absence of any other stabilizing force in the region .... we now have the anarchy and the rise of psychotic tyrants who are more than happy to fill this void.
As bad and as terrible as the situation is today .... it has all the ingredients to become much worse.
